| Show THE SPRING FASHIONS edferns Latest Toilets for Dinner and Street Wear NEW YORK Feb 131891 Special correspondence cor-respondence of THE HERALD Spring has como at last The triumph of the flowers has now begun The crass Is green the primrose opes its buds The mows of winter melt beneath the sun One of the indications of approaching spring Is the issuing of new designs and the display of elegant model costumes at Redferns famed Fifth avenue establishment establish-ment And whatever the weather though the mercury be down towards zero or the snow and sleet falling pitilessly these Feb ruary days find the big parlors crowded with customers and among them the alert fashion chroniclers connected with thereat the-reat journals And most of them come I here with pleasurable anticipations secure of seeing beautiful apparel and of receiving j from Redfern himself down to the least of his gentle voiced assistants the most courteous attention And this too no mattel mat-tel how numerous their questions One of them in there yesterday was jotting down some details as to the mail order depart partment which is one of the best equipped in the country She had just been shown two handsome costumes dinner toilette and a street gown which were about to be dispatched to a lady in the Sandwich Isles Yes madamo said the polite attendant this customer has never been in New York but she has sent to us an old bodico and a chart of measurements and here art I the results which we are confident will fits fit-s though they had been moulded to her I figure Here are two other costumes which are going sonic distance to find their pretty owner but not quite to the south Pacific One is a house gown suitable for an informal athome I ft i W a fi I The petticoat is of otter brown armure and the drapery is of suede colored cloth It is slightly braided with brown and gold and the corsage has a trimming of brown velvet The other is one ofRedferns outdoor jjggjp i L EI E l ft spring gowns and is of figured material with a riching of pinked silk about the skirt The bodice is of velvet with puffed sleeves 4i < 4 j0 |
